college-ruled notebook

TBBT.s3.e10:

Sheldon: Where's your notebook?
Penny: Um, I don't have one.
Sheldon: How are you going to take notes without a notebook?
Penny: I have to take notes?
Sheldon: How else are you gonna study for the tests?
Penny: There's gonna be a test?
Sheldon: Test-sss. [复数, plural] Here. It's college-ruled. I hope that's not too intimidating.

不带刻度的尺子可用来rule - draw a line. 'Wide/legal ruled' conventionally means a 11/32nd (32分之11) inch (8.7 mm) spacing between horizontal lines and a 1¼ inch (32 mm) vertical margin on the left-hand side. 'College/medium/narrow ruled' conventionally is an 9/32nd (7.1 mm) line spacing with or without either a 1 inch (25.4 mm) or 1¼ inch (32 mm) vertical margin. This comes to about 33 lines.

小孩因为字写的大，一般用spacing大的。Penny没上过大学。

六级/考研单词: penny, intimidate, illicit, horizon, vertical, medium